Mermaid or Whale

From something forwarded to me in email this morning:

Recently, in a large city in Australia, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It said, "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"

A middle-aged woman, whose physical characteristics did not match those of the woman on the poster, responded publicly to the question posed by the gym.

To Whom It May Concern,
Whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, sea lions, curious humans.) They have an active sex life, get pregnant and have adorable baby whales. They have a wonderful time with dolphins stuffing themselves with shrimp. They play and swim in the seas, seeing wonderful places like Patagonia, the Bering Sea and the coral reefs of Polynesia. Whales are wonderful singers and have even recorded CDs. They are incredible creatures and virtually have no predators other than humans. They are loved, protected and admired by almost everyone in the world.

Mermaids don't exist. If they did exist, they would be lining up outside the offices of Argentinean psychoanalysts due to identity crisis. Fish or human? They don't have a sex life because they kill men who get close to them, not to mention how could they have sex? Just look at them ... where is IT? Therefore, they don't have kids either. Not to mention, who wants to get close to a girl who smells like a fish store?

The choice is perfectly clear to me: I want to be a whale.

P..S. We are in an age when media puts into our heads the idea that only skinny people are beautiful, but I prefer to enjoy an ice cream with my kids, a good dinner with a man who makes me shiver, and a piece of chocolate with my friends.

With time, we gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room, it distributes out to the rest of our bodies. So we aren't heavy, we are enormously cultured, educated and happy. Beginning today, when I look at my butt in the mirror I will think, ¨Good grief, look how smart I am!¨

Clothes Swapping

Do you want to swap clothes? Support a new idea for a site where women can swap clothes and accessories. Contact Lindsay for more information, read the forum post at CMF Ads to see what her ideas are.

Harajuku Girls Style

My Mom bought a purse with these little Japanese girls on it. It was on the sale rack in Florida but I thought the drawings were cute and looked up the name on the purse. Found a lot of drawings and a whole fashion style called Harajuku.

Find more photos and information on Harajuku Style, WikiHow has a post about How to Dress Harajuku Style, there are photos on Japan Forum, Mooky Chick has a Harajuku Fashion Guide, on Flickr there is a collection of photos: Harajuku Girls are the New Geishas.

The illustration with this post came from Spoiled Brat's blog.

Witchetty: Illustrations by Bee Joynes

Isn't she cute. Another big eyed girl illustrator. Blog: Witchetty and Etsy Shop.

Pinkytoast Big Eyed Girls with Ink

I came across these drawings of big eyed tattooed girls on Tanya's Facebook profile. I thought there was just one until I went for a look this afternoon. I found a few sites where Pinkytoast has posted her drawings and an Etsy shop where you can shop for more of them.

Pinkytoast's blog. As well as an older blog on LiveJournal.

Pinkytoast on Flickr.

Grrl Explorers on Flickr

Female Urban Explorers -

Urban Explorers tend to be men...which is no bad thing for us girl explorers ;) but being such a rare breed, it's always nice to meet other girls interested in UE. This group is a place for UE girls to get together to talk about our explores and experiences and a place to share our images. Let's celebrate the fact that we are female Urban Explorers....and proud of it!

FUSE - Female Urban and Street Exploration

...interesting artifacts found on the street that have been abandoned or unused for quite sometime, parts of a building that has lots of character, or urban exploration in general (the inside of an abandoned building, house, etc).

Why females only? The art of UrbEx is male dominated. I wanted it to be known that women are out there UrbEx'ing too.

Do it for the grrls!

Gallery by Leigh Young

Awhile ago I posted a drawing I found of a chubby pin babe, drawn by Leigh Young. At that time I couldn't find anything else but link rot. Today I was given an active link to her drawings in a comment on my original post. Thanks Papa Kringle. Have a look at Leigh's gallery.

The buttons above are for sale on her site. I didn't want to copy any of her full drawings but thought the buttons were ok to promote as an example of what she can do.

Worldwide Women Artists

http://www.worldwidewomenartists.com/

Doodle Week: Pink Bits

Doodle Week for Breast (and other) Cancer Awareness.

Doodle Week: October 25th is Celebrating Pink Bits

Chubby Pin Babe

By Leigh Young - Doesn't seem to have a site any more. I found three sites referring to this person (can't be sure it's a woman) but all of them were 404. Would have been nice to see other creations along the same lines as this. Not often you find chubby cartoon pin-up babes for desktop wallpaper.

Grrl in Charge

I don't think it's terrible or very adult to be interested in being the woman in charge of the man when it comes to the fun side of a relationship. To say it politely versus talking about more shocking things like BDSM and Dommes and men who want to be submissive.

It's not all about sex. There are things and situations assumed as soon as someone talks about BDSM and Dominance and submission. But, for me it's about being in charge and doing things my own way. If you don't want him drooling over you then you get to make the change. Instead he can wash the dishes and then kneel at your feet until just having him kneeling there starts to be more interesting than annoying.

I don't see everything connected to the D/s fetish being adult and taboo. It's fun. Aren't there things you'd like to do which 'nice girls' just don't do? Wouldn't you like to have a man be the one who feels helpless and unsatisfied for a change. You don't need leather clothes, extraordinary high heels or whips and chains. You can skip the accessories completely and just work with your voice telling him what to do. Force isn't necessary. Both of you want to do this, to have this experience and that is part of the charge and thrill of it.

Keep it all in the bedroom, private and just between the two of you. Take it out a bit, for a little more fun. Torment him just a little more. But, keep it fun for both of you. He needs to know you are in charge and that means you say when you've had enough, just are plain not interested or want him in another room- preferably making himself useful doing some of the household everyday work.

So are you shocked? My little secret is out. I like being the woman in charge of the man, at least in the bedroom.

The Bohemian Spy Chick Thing

Why don't those clothes shops for plus sized/ full figured women have ads with a woman standing at the site of something impressive she is doing with the slogan "I wear ... (insert store/ brand name here)!

Today while getting dressed, putting on my new shirt from Penningtons along with the red panties I bought too. I was thinking that they should run an ad in women's magazines with a woman standing at the site of an abandoned house (I'm going to a good one today) with her camera and show that fat women are doing interesting things and having adventures too. We are more than our lard/ pounds/ etc. Don't you think that would sell more plus sized clothes than the apologetic type of ads they run now? Sure it's nice to see those fat acceptance things but do we really believe any of that? Try dating and you'll soon be taking off those rose coloured glasses. But, that doesn't mean larger women are just sitting at home eating more cupcakes to console themselves. No way. We are getting out there in the world. You can't just get rid of us. We don't make a nice, tidy pile for one thing.

Then I was thinking about how women in general get kind of shafted into the whole pretty/ beauty thing. A man gets a different kind of compliment. A woman gets complimented on her looks more often than anything else.

I know a lot of stuff is based on looks and women are especially born into the life of having to be pretty. But, we don't have to bore ourselves with the same old compliments. They become kind of meaningless.

Instead, when a friend has a new hair cut, don't tell her it makes her look younger or sexy. Tell her it makes her look mysterious, maybe even a little dangerous! Wouldn't you like to hear that yourself. Doesn't it sound a lot better than saying it's pretty. Besides, don't we all secretly want to be seen as a mysterious, dangerous secret agent spy chick? Or live the life of the free spirit, bohemian like Desperately Seeking Susan?

So share that. Tell friends they look mysterious... even a little... dangerous. Leave pretty for the boys, see how they like to be called something empty and generic like pretty. Pretty what?

Inspired by the Doodles of Claire

Inspired by Claire. Doodle Dominatrix!
The most fun you can have with your doodle.

Happy Mother's Day

TomGeeks: Grrl Powered Web Comics

TomGeeks Mission:

~To provide a positive environment for females of the geeky persuasion, via our forums and links to other useful sites, regardless of whether they are a comic creator or not.
~To help aspiring women webcomic creators gain exposure via the Tomgeeks Member List, where they are afforded a banner ad for their comic.
~To provide quality reviews of quality webcomics, games, sites, and more.

The Great Mom Award

Thank you Emila. I'm not a Mother but accept the award in honour of my Mom. I wouldn't be here without her.

This is Cute in an Evil Way

Everyday People Cartoon

Everyday People - A weekly cartoon about real people. Lady Banana had this one on her blog.

WomenBloom.com

WomenBloom.com -

WomenBloom was created by Allison Allen in August 2007 with the goal of inspiring and supporting women to ‘bloom’ in mid-life.

Our generation of women stands at a unique intersection of Possibility and Challenge. We come to mid-life with better health, more skills, more options and varying circumstances than ever before. Along with the positives, however, often come complicated changes in families and relationships, our bodies, and our self-identity.

To address both the possibilities and the challenges of our 'second adulthood', WomenBloom serves as:

* an online community for supporting each other by sharing our mid-life experiences and perspectives
* a resource for information, services, and products to help us make the most of this time of our lives, whether more possibility or more challenge

What is midlife? I'm likely there. But denial isn't all bad. If this is the middle... that means I can't go back and ahead time is just getting shorter. I don't mind to die. I just don't want to miss all the good parts ahead. That really does annoy me. Like reading a really good book and finding all the pages in the last chapter were ripped out.